Learning environments and pedagogical mediation in higher education. Experience of the Early Childhood Education career at UNAN-Managua, CUR-Estelí. Nicaragua

Abstract

Learning environments are resources designed by the teacher to facilitate learning. This requires the creation of strategies in correspondence with the different types of environment and the construction of meaningful learning. The objective of this study was to identify the learning environments developed in the Early Childhood Education course at CUR-Estelí. The paradigm used was interpretative and the approach was qualitative; this allowed the collection of information about the problem under study from different sources. The study is non-probabilistic and intentional. Observation, interview and focus group were used as data collection techniques. The findings indicate that the teachers conceive the environments as areas created for learning, as well as highlighting their importance in the formation of the students. They have designed their own environments based on the teaching experience they have acquired in the facilitation of subjects and components, which allows the use of varied strategies in the pedagogical and digital spaces. Pedagogical mediation contributes to the construction of the environments and the strengthening of the teaching work. It is concluded that the learning environments created efficiently and under a mediated process from the three treatments of mediation, and the didactic planning performed by the teacher, contribute to the quality of education and facilitation in a creative and innovative way.